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Permalink Reply by Michael Appleman on November 14, 2011 at 12:59am

I never thought about that, but now i'm curious too.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Butler on November 14, 2011 at 1:50am

As a child I attended the First Church of Christian Science in Chevy Chase MD now I know there were several other branches of our church and they progressed in ascending order normally from the time of there founding but I do not know if this holds true for all churches of different faiths. If there is only one of each denomination in the area that might explain why they are all first churches however in a big city you will see First church and Second church and so on.  

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Permalink Reply by John Kelly on November 15, 2011 at 1:02am

Bill has it right.  It is the first church of that particular specific denomination, or in the case of the independents, non-denomination.

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